bLab - Wednesday lunchtime

Areta Wilkinson
This week’s bLab is extra special because Areta Wilkinson is herself a Unitec graduate; one who has excelled in her field.

Areta teaches and practices Jewellery and has been producing and showing work in New Zealand for more than 15 years and internationally also. She has achieved recognition as the outstanding artist she is on a number of occasions most recently as one of two School of Design staff to represent New Zealand in Turbulence; The 3rd Auckland International Triennial. (We visited this work as part if the "interior day out" at AK07 earlier this year and many of you were very interested in it).

Bring your lunch, see and hear about Areta’s project ‘Takapau Will Travel; Journeys with Jewellery’. All welcome, especially students.

Wednesday 12.30 – 1.00pm May 30 B001 – 1159 (The Old Fridge)

bLab - Wednesday lunchtime

Dr Rachel Carley Lectures in Theory and Interior in the School of
Design and practices as a ceramic artist, bread making enthusiast
and product designer. Her seminar; "The Foreign Body” discusses Rachel
Whiteread's ‘Untitled (Room 101)’ .

Rachel Whiteread is a British artist slightly predating the YBA's of
the Damien Hurst ilk. Her work is simultaneously poetic, forensic,
starkly beautiful and monumental. It touches on issues relevant to
architecture, interior space, photography in its relationship to the
'indexical mark', sculpture and philosophy.

Come and here Rachel talk authoritatively about her name sake and PhD
topic, get to know your lecturers!

May 16 Wednesday 12.30, B001 - 1159 (the old fridge)